QUEENSLAND PREMIER
POLICY SPEECH FINANCIAL POSITION OF STATE Brisbane, April 10. The Premier, the Hon. W. McCormack, in a policy speech . at Cairns, after comparing the financial position of Queensland with that of other States, claimed that the -State’s credit was very sound. He stated that the Government was endeavouring to increase' the area of forest plantations and regenerate the hardwood forests. He forecasted a widows and orphans’ pensions scheme, and the extension of the motherhood and child welfare scheme to the larger centres. He said that it was intended to increase payments to injured workers to the full rate of wage earned, but not exceeding the basic wage; also to increase payments to workers suffering from miners’ phthisis and other occupational diseases, and to provide for workers’ homes and dwellings on a more generous scale. . The Government was prepared, lie said, if the Commonwealth Government cooperated, financially to assist the development of the cotton industry.— Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 167, 12 April 1926, Page 7
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